Deposit

Who can deposit into DRS?

Any Harvard affiliate can contribute digital objects to the Harvard Library Digital Repository. Actual deposit of objects can be performed by the Harvard affiliate, but more often is performed by an imaging lab such as Harvard Library Imaging Services.

How are digital objects deposited?

A deposit to DRS includes one or more digital objects accompanied by descriptive, administrative and technical metadata about the objects. This package of objects and metadata is called a batch. Authorized depositors use the desktop application Batch Builder to create these batches and then upload them to a DRS dropbox by secure FTP. The DRS batch loader service picks up these batches, processes them into the repository and sends a load report to the depositor.